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2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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J. MARTIN.

GANDLB LAMP.

Patented Jan. 1, 1889.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MARTIN, OF IIEWI, NEAR MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.

CAN DLE- LAIVI F.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,574, dated January 1, 1889.

Application filed .Iuly 18, 1888. Serial No. 280,266. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MARTIN, gentle.- man, a subjeet of the Queen of Great Britain, residing' at Fitzwilliam street, Kew, near Melbourne. in the British Colony oi' Victoria, have invented a new and useful Improvement .in Candle-Lamps, ot' which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to that class of eandle-lamps in which the tubular portion for the reception of the candle has a curvilinear lform hitherto so arranged as to merge into or start from a rectilinear tubular stem or socket.

rlhe invention consists, essentially, in the structural features substantially as hereinafter fully described, and as speeitieall ,v pointed out in the claims.

In carrying' out my invention I propose to make the socket for the reception of the eandle of semi-@ vlilulrieal form in eross-seetion and provide the same with an extension, both of such curvature as to form a volute, or substantially so, and combine therewith a stand or other suitable means for supporting,` the socket, and a spring' for feeding the eandle to the burner-orifice as said candle burns away. The eandles used in sueh lamps must, of course, be made to conform to the shape and size oil sueh soekets.

In the accompanying' (lrawillgs, Figu re l shows a side elevation oi' one of the simplest forms of my invention, the dotted lines representine` a suitable stand or su pport to whieh Fig. shows a side elederstood that I do not confine myself to the use oi a eoiled or other springI for this purpose,` inasmuch pressure of any hind and derived `from any souree, so long' as it is oontinuous and equable, will answer the purpose required. t

In the drawings, A is the semieireular socket, I3, the correspondingly-shaped candle; O, the spring eoiled around the pin or stud. D on the arm E.

F is a plate or disk made with or seeured to the end of the spring O.

II is the Cap against whieh the top or foreu mostend of the Candle is pressed. The spring` C must be ot' suiieient strength to keep the Candle up to said Cap I-I.

In Fig'. it will be seen that t-he :andle is shown as being partly consumed.

Having' now particularly described and aseertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I elaim isl. A Candle-lamp comprising a holder of substantially the form of a volute, that portion of the volute designed for the reception of the Candle being' semi-eylimlrieal in cross section, in combination with the cap II, the springl C on the end of arm E of the volute, and the spring-arm, substantially as and for the purposes speei fied.

il. A Candle-lamp (comprising a holder of f substantially the lorm of a volute, that poi'- tion of the volute designed for the reception of the eandle bein semi-o vlindrieal .in cross section and provided at the burner end with the eap Vll and at the opposite end with the eoiled spring' (l, and spring-arm extending' into the semi-eylindrieal portion ot' the holder, in combination with a stand to which said holder is secured, substalnially as and for the purposes specified.

JOHN MARTIN. 'W itnesses:

WALTER SMYTHE BAYsToN, WALTER CHARLES HART. 

